• Especially for People Who Stutter

  • Message to a stutterer by Joseph Sheehan

  • Tough Talking by Tim Shanks, on the work Joseph Sheehan. First published in the Spring 1990 issue of 'Speaking Out', the newletter of the British Stammering Association. (from web archive)

• His Professional Contributions

  • Bibliography of Joseph Sheehan's Work

  • Approach - Avoidance Conflict Revisited an article by Christine Hyde, from the British Stammering Association

  • Excepts from the writings of Joseph Sheehan, from his Memorial Service. (original also available on the British Stammering Association website.

  • Remarks from Oliver Bloodstein at a memorial program for Joseph Sheehan, ASHA Convention.

  • Interview with Joseph Sheehan Highlights from "The Iceberg of Stuttering" (1968). A classic presentation of Sheehan's ideas: stuttering as approach-avoidance conflict, vicious circle, status-gap problem, false-role disorder, and the stutterer as "giant in chains."

  • Information on ordering two - >No Words To Say Joseph G. Sheehan's Message To A Stuttere video

  • Easy Stuttering by Vivian Sheehan, M.A., CCC; Pamela Shanks, M.A., CCC and Stephen Mereu - price $9.98 (consists of articles and assignments based on the ideas and concepts Joseph Sheehan. Most of the assignments were originally written by him).

  • Short Course in Diagnosis and Treatment of Stuttering: Conflict Theory and Avoidance-Reduction Therapy - summarizes Sheehan's views on stuttering and therapy (on the British Stammering Association website).

• Up close and personal - biography, personal story

  • Biography of Joseph Sheehan - Joseph G. Sheehan, Psychology: Los Angeles - 1918-1983, Professor, Biography from the University of California: In Memoriam, 1985, Online Archive of California

  • Audio files of Joseph Sheehan
    • Joseph Sheehan, part of ASHA panel 1957
      • Listen with Quick Time or Real Audio (17.7MB)
    • Joseph Sheehan, part of a 1959 panel of specialists at a University of Wisconsin symposium
      • Listen with Quick Time or Real Audio (16.8MB)
    • Joseph Sheehan, part of ASHA panel 1977
      • Listen with Quick Time or Real Audio (19.1MB)
    • A conversation between Charles Van Riper and Joseph Green Sheehan - made at the annual meeting of the Council of Adult Stutterers held on November 20, 1966
      • Listen with Quick Time or Real Audio (18.7MB)

• His friends and family remember

  • Joe Sheeehan: An Appreciation by J. David Williams

  • In Remembrance by William Murphy

  • Vivian Sheehan speaks at a memorial to Joe Sheehan, ASHA 1984
    • Listen with Quick Time or Real Audio (12.6MB)

  • Things Remembered - a place to post your own Sheehan stories.

Completely updated March 29, 2019
Last modified March 29, 2019